Peggy Stewart
Born: 1923-06-05 in West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Died: 2019-05-29
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Peggy Stewart (born Margaret O'Rourke; June 5, 1923 - May 29, 2019) was an American film actress who starred mostly in B-movies during the 1930s and 1940s. Her sister, Patricia O'Rourke, was an Olympic swimmer, and was married to World War II hero and well known B-movie actor Wayne Morris. Stewart's career began when she was cast in the 1937 film Wells Fargo, alongside Joel McCrea. By the early 1940s she was on contract with Republic Pictures, starring regularly with Allan Lane, Sunset Carson, and Wild Bill Elliott. During that time she played in several episodes of Adventures of Red Ryder. She usually played the part of the tough heroine, rather than a passive girl needing to be saved. Along that time she married western actor Don Barry. From 1944 to 1951 she starred in thirty-five films, most of which were serials and westerns. She also starred with Gene Autry several times during that period as well as appearing on several episodes of The Cisco Kid including "Oil Land" which first aired on 10-10-1950. In 1949, she played alongside Jim Bannon in Ride, Ryder, Ride. She again played the part of heroine to Bannon in 1950, starring in The Fighting Redhead. In 1952 she starred with Bill Elliott in Kansas Territory. Her career slowed in the 1960s, and by the 1970s she was residing in Studio City, California. Stewart won the Golden Boot Awards in 1984. Semi-retired, Stewart still continued to act on occasion, and played a bit role on one episode of Seinfeld in 1990 titled "The Implant". In that episode she played the part of the aunt to George Costanza's temporary girlfriend. More recently she has played Pam Beesly's "old-fashioned" grandmother Mee-Maw on The Office episode "Niagara, and once more in the episode when they baptise Jims and Pams daughter CC. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peggy Stewart(actress), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2013
- Getting On as Mrs. Decker
2012
- That's My Boy as Grandma Delores
2010
- The Runaways as Grandma Oni
2009
- Community as Agnes
2007
2005
- The Office as Sylvia
- My Name Is Earl as Dotty Lake
2003
- NCIS as Elderly Lady
2002
- American Dreams as Mrs. Maddox
2000
- Strong Medicine as Elmira
1999
- Popular as Old Lady
1998
- Charmed as Lillian
1997
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Ms. Barton
1991
- Step by Step as Dottie
1990
1981
- The Adventures of Nellie Bly as Mrs. Long
- She Drinks a Little as Esther Sherrigan
1980
- Beyond Evil as Lady Patient
- The Secret of Lost Valley as Camper's Wife
- The Night the Bridge Fell Down
1979
- Knots Landing as Nurse
- The Fall of the House of Usher as Barmaid
1978
- Taxi as Buyer #2
- The Time Machine
- Donner Pass: The Road to Survival as Mrs. Breen
1977
- Black Oak Conspiracy as Virginia Metcalf
1976
- Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw as Hattie Baker
1975
- White House Madness as Rosemary Woods
1973
- Terror in the Wax Museum as Second Charwoman
- The No Mercy Man as Mrs. Hand
1972
1970
- The Animals as Mrs. Emily Perkins
1968
1967
- Ironside
- The Way West as Mrs. Turley
- Hondo as Mrs. Malcolm
1964
- Daniel Boone as Ida Morgan
1963
- The Fugitive as Mrs. Franklin
1961
- Gun Street as Mrs. Knudson
- The Clown and the Kid as Sister Grace
- When the Clock Strikes as Mrs. Pierce
1959
- The Twilight Zone as Grace Stockton
- The Rebel as Sarah Wallace
- Not for Hire
1958
- Peter Gunn
- Yancy Derringer as Karen Ogilvie
1957
- Have Gun, Will Travel as Sarah Holt
1955
- Gunsmoke as Mrs. Philips
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
- The Millionaire as Mary - Secretary
1954
1953
- Six Gun Decision as Jane
1952
- Kansas Territory as Kay Collins
- Gang Busters
- The Living Bible as Woman at the Tomb
- Montana Incident as Clara Martin
- The Black Lash as Joan Delysa
1951
- The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
- Pride of Maryland as Christine Loomis
1950
- The Cisco Kid as Peggy Williams, Burton's Niece
- Cody of the Pony Express as Linda Graham
1949
- Desert Vigilante as Betty Long
- Ride, Ryder, Ride! as Libby Brooks
- The Fighting Redhead as Sheila O'Connor
1948
- Frontier Revenge as Joan De Lysa
- Dead Man's Gold as June Thornton
- Tex Granger: Midnight Rider of the Plains as Helen Kent
1947
- Messenger of Peace as Evangeline Lockley
- Son of Zorro as Kate Wells
- Rustlers of Devil's Canyon as Bess
- Trail to San Antone as Kit Barlow
- Vigilantes of Boomtown as Molly McVey
1946
- The Phantom Rider as Doris Shannon
- Stagecoach to Denver as Beautiful
- Alias Billy the Kid as Ann Marshall
- The Invisible Informer as Rosalind Baylor
- Red River Renegades as Julie Bennett
- California Gold Rush as Hazel Parker
- Sheriff of Redwood Valley as Molly
- Days of Buffalo Bill as Molly Owens
- Passkey to Danger as Model
- Conquest of Cheyenne as Cheyenne Jackson
1945
- Oregon Trail as Jill Layton
- The Tiger Woman as Phyllis Carrington
- Utah as Jackie, trumpeter showgirl
- The Vampire's Ghost as Julie Vance
- Rough Riders of Cheyenne as Melinda Sterling
- Bandits of the Badlands as Hallie Wayne
- Marshal of Laredo as Judy Bowers
1944
- Cheyenne Wildcat as Betty Lou Hopkins
- Tucson Raiders as Beth Rogers
- Firebrands of Arizona as Poppy Calhoun
- Sheriff of Las Vegas as Ann Carter
- Silver City Kid as Ruth Clayton
- Code of the Prairie as Helen Matson
- Stagecoach to Monterey as Jessie Wade
1941
- Back Street as Freda Smith
1940
- All This, and Heaven Too as Helen Lexington
1939
- Everybody's Hobby as Bunny
- Fifth Avenue Girl as Katherine's Friend (uncredited)
- Man About Town as Mary (uncredited)
1938
- That Certain Age as Mary Lee
- Little Tough Guys in Society as Jane
- Little Tough Guy as Rita Belle
1937
- Wells Fargo as Alice MacKay